Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add instructions/aveproject/ave/claude-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aveproject/aveWhat it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.01671 | $0.01671 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00835 | $0.00835 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00334 | $0.00334 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00167 | $0.00167 |
Grade A, and why
ave CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md — aveproject/ave
Read this file completely before touching anything. Single source of truth for how work happens in this repo.
Project
aveproject/ave — the behavioral classification standard for agentic AI components. An independent standard that bawbel-scanner implements. NOT a feature of the scanner.
- Records: 56 published (schema_version 1.1.0)
- Schema: schema/ave-record-1.1.0.schema.json
- Scoring: OWASP AIVSS v0.8
- Registry: aveproject.org
- Public API: api.piranha.bawbel.io
- Scanner: github.com/bawbel/scanner (reference implementation)
This repo contains DEFINITIONS, not detections. An AVE record defines a behavioral class. A scanner Finding is one detection that references an AVE record by ave_id.
The critical distinction — read this twice
AVE Record (this repo) Finding (scanner repo)
────────────────────── ──────────────────────
static behavioral class definition runtime detection instance
authored once by a human produced by every scan
one per behavioral class one per detection
NO confidence field HAS confidence field
NO evidence_stage field HAS evidence_stage field
declares confidence_baseline assigns actual confidence
declares evidence_kind_default assigns actual evidence_kind
declares detection_stage reaches an actual evidence_stage
confidence is PER-DETECTION. It never lives in an AVE record. The record declares the BASELINE; the scanner assigns the ACTUAL value.
Record schema v1.1.0
Every record validates against schema/ave-record-1.1.0.schema.json.
15 required fields (once status is active or deprecated):
ave_id · schema_version · status · published
title · description · attack_class · severity · behavioral_fingerprint
aivss · owasp_mcp
indicators_of_compromise · remediation
references · researcher
Draft submit-required core (status: "draft" only needs these 8):
ave_id · schema_version · status · title · description · attack_class ·
behavioral_fingerprint · references
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 201 lines · 1,671 tokens per session scan A 0e66d3e227d7
ave CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository aveproject/ave (17 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,671 tokens to every session, about $0.0084 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
Other instructions, from other repositories
hush CLAUDE.md
Instructions for backbay-labs/hush, covering claude.md, project overview, repo structure, common commands and rust.
From-LLMs-to-Secure-Agents AGENTS.md
Instructions for RenatoMignone/From-LLMs-to-Secure-Agents, covering agent instructions, run contract, policy map and invariants.
scanner CLAUDE.md
Claude Code instructions for bawbel/scanner, covering bawbel scanner — claude.md, repository structure, documentation, the three source files — read these first and absolute rules — never break.
AI-Infra-Guard AGENTS.md
AGENTS.md instructions for Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard, covering agents.md, 项目定位, 目录速览, 本地开发常用命令 and go 服务.
AgentHound CLAUDE.md
Instructions for adithyan-ak/AgentHound, covering agenthound maintainer contract, required checks, hard boundaries, core invariants and module registration.
emilia-protocol CLAUDE.md
Instructions for emiliaprotocol/emilia-protocol, covering emilia protocol - repo guide, required context, critical, build & ship and outbound & claims.